SportsDirect Inc. Preview: Prairie View A&M at California After an encouraging win over UC Santa Barbara, California continues its run toward the start of Pac-12 play with a home game against Prairie View A&M. The Bears have relied heavily on guards Allen Crabbe and Justin Cobbs, but they finally had a few other players step up against the Gauchos. They're hoping for a repeat performance against Prairie View A&M, which is coming off a 95-53 loss at UCLA last Saturday. The Panthers, who were preseason favorites to win the Southwestern Athletic Conference, are facing California for the first time since 1989.

SportsDirect Inc. Preview: Texas A&M at Houston Texas A&M visits Houston on Saturday looking for its third straight victory and sixth in seven games to start the season. Elston Turner scored 17 points on 5-of-9 shooting from 3-point range to propel the Aggies to their latest win, a 78-65 victory over Northwestern State. Texas A&M's lone loss this year came to Saint Louis in the CBE Classic on Nov. 19. Houston is coming off its first loss of the season, falling to Prairie View A&M 81-80 on Wednesday.

The Sports Xchange Prairie View A&M 42, Navy 40 Prairie View A&M rallied from a 12-point second-half deficit to defeat Navy 42-40 on a buzzer-beating layup by Carl Blair on Friday in the South Padre Invitational in South Padre Island, Texas. The Midshipmen's Brandon Venturini made the first of two free throws to tie the game at 40 with four seconds left. He missed the second, and the Panthers' Jules Montgomery rebounded and found Blair, who converted the game-winner for the final two of his nine points.